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Fear Drought Will Kill 70,000 Jobs

5 February 2003

As many as 70,000 workers are likely to lose their jobs and economic growth could be cut by 1.6per cent as a result of the drought the worst since European settlement. A report by Monash University's Centre of Policy Studies made the forecast at the same time as the Bureau of Meteorology announced 97 per cent of NSW was in the grip of a ``serious to severe rainfall shortage"... read full story

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